Krispy Kreme founder Vernon Rudolph "bought a secret yeast-
raised doughnut recipe from a New Orleans French chef."

According to Krispy Kreme’s website, Rudolph set up a doughnut
factory in present-day Old Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
and began to sell doughnuts to area grocery stores on this day in
1937.

"The delicious scents of cooking doughnuts drifted into the
and passersby stopped to ask if they could buy hot doughnuts."

Rudolph created the first Krispy Kreme storefront by cutting a
hole in the wall of his building, allowing people to buy a glazed
doughnut right on the sidewalk.

Vernon Carver Rudolph
(June 30, 1915 – August 16, 1973)

In Los Angeles, California, Senator John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts was nominated for the presidency by the
Democratic Party Convention, defeating Senator Lyndon
B. Johnson of Texas. The next day, Johnson was named
Kennedy’s running mate by a unanimous vote of the
convention.

Senators Kennedy and Johnson during the 1960 campaign.

DeLorean died at Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey, from
a stroke, on March 19, 2005, at the age of 80. His ashes are
interred at the White Chapel Cemetery, in Troy, Michigan.

The film Back to the Future was released in 1985, featuring
DeLorean’s namesake car, and DeLorean wrote to writer and
producer Bob Gale thanking him for immortalizing the car.

A Medal of Honor awarded to a Civil War general was
found inside a book at a church fundraising sale.

On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into
law a measure calling for the awarding of a U.S. Army Medal
of Honor, in the name of Congress, “to such noncommissioned
officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by
their gallantry in action, and other soldier-like qualities during
the present insurrection.”

Abraham Lincoln
(February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)

Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011)

Walter Mondale, the leading Democratic presidential
candidate, announced that he has chosen Representative
Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate in 1984.

Then-Democratic presidential candidate, ex-VP Walter
Mondale introduces his running mate, Rep. Geraldine
Ferraro, before the Democratic convention.